Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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